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In a fresh round of funding led by <keyword id="2604975" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hillhouse-Capital">Hillhouse Capital</keyword> and <keyword id="2524284" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tybourne-Capital">Tybourne Capital</keyword>, auto classifieds website <keyword id="1945738" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cardekho">CarDekho</keyword>.com has raised $50 million (about Rs 307 crore). CarDekho’s existing investor Sequoia Capital, which currently has a 20% stake in the company, also participated in the funding process. 
 
The seven year-old company, which sells both used and new cars on its platform, has now joined the club of Indian consumer Internet companies valued at Rs 1,000 crore or more. 
 
"We will be using the proceeds primarily towards brand building and marketing. We will consider acquisitions as well, and have held talks with other start-ups that we feel can enhance our technology platform," said Amit Jain, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) at CarDekho. CarDekho’s chief competitors are Tiger Global, <keyword id="1980082" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cartrade">CarTrade</keyword>.com and <keyword id="817470" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Carwale">Carwale</keyword>.com. It also faces competition from classifieds websites like OLX and eBay-backed Quikr. 
 
"Given the adoption of the Internet in India, especially through mobile, we're targeting revenue of Rs 500-600 crore, and a billion dollar valuation over the next four to five years," said Jain. 
 
A number of global hedge funds have been pumping cash into the country’s consumer Internet businesses for the last two years.

CarDekho.com Raises Fresh Funds Worth Rs 307 Crore

Online marketplace Snapdeal.com has raised $100 million from a group of five investors, the company said in a statement. The investors are Temasek, <keyword id="192695" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="BlackRock-Inc">BlackRock Inc</keyword>, <keyword id="60286" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="myriad">Myriad</keyword>, <keyword id="648852" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Premji-Invest">Premji Invest</keyword> and <keyword id="2249842" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tybourne-">Tybourne.</keyword> 
 
"We see this financing round as another endorsement of Snapdeal's differentiated strategy and progress as India's largest online marketplace. We are pleased to welcome several marquee global investors as our partners and believe their association will contribute to Snapdeal's long-term success. 
 
"Our mobile and Internet commerce marketplace is now connecting millions of buyers to a very large base of sellers that offer products and services of national and international brands. We will continue to focus on creating life-changing experiences for the buyers, as well as sellers, in the Snapdeal ecosystem," said Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal's co-founder and chief executive officer. 
 
This follows Snapdeal's previous round of equity financing of $133.77 million, which was completed in February 2014 with participation from Snapdeal's existing investors, including eBay, Kalaari Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Saama Capital. 
 
Credit Suisse acted as Snapdeal's exclusive financial advisor and Indus Law acted as its legal advisor for the financing.

Online Marketplace Snapdeal.com Raises $100
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Scott Coulter's Cowbird Capital has closed, the second Lone Pine spinout to shutter this year.</li><li>In the past five years, four other alums have either shuttered or stopped trading hedge fund strategies.</li></ul>Lone Pine's saplings are struggling to take root.Scott Coulter's Cowbird Capital closed at the end of summer, several people told Business Insider. It's the latest spinoff from long-running Tiger Cub Lone Pine Capital to shutter. Coulter, who started Cowbird in 2017 and managed roughly $200 million as of March, according to regulatory filings, did not return several requests for comment.Lone Pine, the $16 billion firm led by co-chief investment officers Kelly Granat and David Craver, was founded in 1997 by billionaire Steve Mandel. Mandel had previously worked for Julian Robertson's Tiger Management and was hailed by his late billionaire backer as "probably the greatest analyst of all time."But while Robertson's Tiger is now known as much for its talent development prowess as its investing acumen, Lone Pine's own alumni network has struggled in recent years. The firm has spawned at least 12 hedge funds, but about half of those have shuttered or are no longer running hedge fund strategies.The Tiger Cubs, dubbed so because they're descendants of Roberston's Tiger Management, have lost luster in recent years. Big-name funds like Tiger Global and Coatue suffered serious drawdowns, casting doubt on the cohort's growth-stock focus. Lone Pine, which lost 36% in its long-short fund in 2022, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-28/lone-pine-clients-pulled-about-3-billion-in-span-of-a-year">has battled redemptions</a> and departures.But the struggles of Lone Pine's spinoffs are also a symptom of a larger industrywide trend that sucked money from smaller single-manager funds and redistributed it to more diversified platforms.Allocators, however, still had an appetite for backing launches from big names with significant experience, and the biggest Lone Pine spin-out has had a quietly solid start.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lone-pine-mala-gaonkar-profile-mandel-team-performance-foundation-arts-2021-5">Mala Gaonkar,</a> who previously co-led Lone Pine with Granat and Craver, began trading at her fund SurgoCap in January 2023. It launched with capital from the massive Texas Teachers Retirement System, among others.While Gaonkar has appeared more on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imago-images.com/st/0417365427">red carpets</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://omny.fm/shows/river-cafe-table-4/mala-gaonkar">cooking podcasts</a> than on CNBC — her partner is Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, whom she had worked with on various artistic ventures over the years — a person close to the firm told Business Insider that SurgoCap is up more than 25% this year. The firm now manages more than $3 billion, a big jump from the $1.8 billion she started with in 2023.SurgoCap — the largest-ever launch of a woman-run fund — has a few of the big-name tech stocks in its portfolio, including Nvidia, but its biggest holdings are stocks such as healthcare conglomerate McKesson and energy giant GE Vernova. The firm was also a part of the summer fundraising round by Figma after its deal with Abobe fell through at the end of 2023.<h2 id="9c9d8479-a4c4-491e-9072-0c010a34dc17">Inside the Lone Pine family tree</h2>Gaonkar's experience is far from the norm for Lone Pine alums though.Of the seven Lone Pine spinoffs <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-julian-robertsons-tiger-network-spans-hundreds-of-funds-2019-11">Business Insider identified in 2019</a>, two — David Stemerman's Conatus Capital and Scott Phillips' Latimer Light Capital — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/wealth/hedge-fund-latimer-light-says-it-is-shutting-down-idUSKCN1OK2AN/">had already closed</a>. Since then, another two from that original list of seven — Matt Iorio's White Elm Capital and Coulter's aforementioned firm — have shuttered while Eashwar Krishnan's Tybourne Capital <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-15/tybourne-to-shut-2-8-billion-hedge-fund-on-short-selling-pains">wound down its $2.8 billion hedge fund</a> at the end of 2021 to focus on long-only and private investing.Of those seven funds, only Li Ran's London-based Half Sky Capital and Brian Eizenstat's Dilation Capital are still running hedge fund strategies. Stemerman is now running a new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/centerbook-partners-hedge-fund-using-other-firms-to-invest-2024-1">multi-strategy offering called CenterBook Partners</a>, where he is not trading but mining external managers' books to create his portfolio.Other Lone Pine employees have started funds in recent years to mixed results. Paul Eisenstein's Vetamer Capital — a fintech-focused manager that invested in public and private companies — wound down at the beginning of this year after launching in 2020. Nikhil Trikha, who launched California-based Ampersand Capital Group in 2022, has less than $150 million in assets, according to regulatory filings.Meanwhile, former Lone Pine managing director Arthur Wit is launching Perryridge Capital, a new fund focused on healthcare and industrials stocks, later this year and declined to comment for this story.<h2 id="5e979d07-02cc-4225-835b-ed5c4da4f8d5">Is Viking Global now the gold standard?</h2>It's not uncommon for startup hedge funds to struggle to get off the ground and eventually stall out completely. Even though last year was the lowest level of fund liquidations in nearly two decades, according to Hedge Fund Research, there were still more than 400 closures.The pedigree of the greater Tiger Cub universe and the ambition of those who work at these firms means there'll still be a solid supply of new launches from funds like Lone Pine going forward. But the hallmark of Robertson's tenure atop Tiger Management was not just that his proteges would start new funds — it was that these new launches endured.Firms like Lone Pine, Tiger Global, Coatue, Viking Global, Maverick, Light Street, and others have lasted for decades and minted billionaires along the way.The firm that's come closest to filling Tiger Management's shoes appears to be Andreas Halvorsen's $48 billion Viking Global, which has become, to many, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-viking-global-thinks-about-analyst-talent-hiring-2024-8">gold standard of talent development</a> in the Tiger Cub world. The firm <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/viking-global-hedge-fund-launches-grant-wonders-voyager-d1-sundheim-2021-10">has been the launching pad for funds</a> such as Dan Sundheim's D1 Capital and Ben Jacobs' Anomaly. Ning Jin, the firm's longtime CIO, left at the end of August to start his own manager.Indeed, one of the biggest Lone Pine spinouts has a Viking connection: Marco Tablada, who was once on Lone Pine's management committee and worked for Robertson at Tiger Management before that, cofounded Alua Capital with former Viking CIO Tom Purcell in 2020.According to regulatory filings from earlier this year, the firm now manages close to $2.7 billion.

Alums of $16 billion Tiger Cub Lone Pine have struggled to hack it on their own — with one notable exception

With a few more days to go for Diwali, <keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword> acquired <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=freecharge" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Freecharge</a> is already having a blast. You must be wondering what the reason is. Well, Jasper Infotech, the parent company of Snapdeal will be raising $300 million (Rs 2,000 crore) for its digital services platform <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=freecharge" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">FreeCharge</a>. 
 The fundraising exercise will bolster <keyword id="6377963" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Freecharge">Freecharge</keyword>’s grounding and thereby aid Snapdeal to extend more goods and services to the customers. In the news report, The Economic Times has also said that Snapdeal had earlier raised $500 million from Alibaba, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Foxconn" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Foxconn</a> and SoftBank. 
 
The ET news report further confirmed that two sovereign funds are also keen on investing in this round. While the identities of these investors haven’t been ascertained yet, this proves that India is becoming a luring ground for investors funding in digital space. 
 
Freecharge’s rival <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Paytm" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Paytm</a> has raised almost $680 million from Alibaba. This fundraising by Freecharge will help Snapdeal to counter <keyword id="6357120" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="PayTM">Paytm</keyword>. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of the company which owns Paytm, is one of the 11 entities to receive an RBI licence to start a payment bank, reported the ET. 
 
However, the new <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=fund+raising+" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">fund raising</a> would not have any secondary components. This would mean that Freecharge <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=fund+raising+" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">investors</a> including Sequoia Capital, hedge funds Valiant Capital and Tybourne Capital, ru-Net and Sofina will keep holding Snapdeal’s stock.

Freecharge gets fund booster as Snapdeal readies to raise $300 million

Wish to buy a car this <keyword id="188" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Diwali">Diwali</keyword>? But what about the one you already have. So, this <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=diwali">Diwali</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Ratan+Tata">Ratan Tata</a>-backed <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=CarDekho+">CarDekho </a>will launch <keyword id="2973964" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="CarBuddy">CarBuddy</keyword>, an app to assist you if your car breaks down in the middle of the road. 
 
As reported by Economic Times, the app will ensure that a mechanic reaches you in a few minutes. CarBuddy will offer the service in India's big cities in the next three months. 
 <keyword id="1945738" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cardekho">CarDekho</keyword> CEO <keyword id="30126" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amit-Jain">Amit Jain</keyword> said, "We have tied up with five major car helpline players in major metros and are in the process of tying up with local mechanics to provide the on-demand service." 
 
As per the report, CarBuddy will work on commission basis, on different rates for various services including car wash, battery change, full car service and much more. 
 Developed by Girnar Soft’s Jaipur delivery canter, the app initially will be launched only on <keyword id="6355645" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="android">Android</keyword> platforms and later-on will expand to an online manual for users for basic repairs. 
 
In its series B of fund raising, in January, CarDekho raised $50 million from investors including Hillhouse Capital, Tybourne Capital and Sequoia Capital. 
 
Not just this but the firm is also planning to spread out the idea. "India will prove to be a test ground for us. Once successful we will expand it overseas," Jain informed. 
 
According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, about 18.51 lakh cars were sold in India in 2014 but not many were covered under the repair assistance program. For instance, the Delhi National Capital Region has about 73 lakh cars, making it the country's biggest market. 
 
"But only about 2.5 lakh cars are covered under any kind of repair assistance," said Neeraj Kumar Naveen, managing director of Race Car Helpline, which has 50,000 vehicles registered on its network. 
 
According to estimates, each car registered on the repair networks in India gets serviced about 1.2 times per Year. India has about 2.2 crore vehicles on its roads. 
 
The opportunity has attracted global repair assistance companies such as Mondial and Mapfre, which also offer assistance for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=luxury+cars">luxury cars</a>. 
 
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